Science History Institute and La Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie

Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 3:00 pm EDT
Science History Institute315 Chestnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19106United States

The Savant, the Gasometer, and the Instrument Maker: Lavoisier’s Last Exchange of Letters Dealing with Chemistry, November 1793

Patrice Bret (Comité Lavoisier, Editor of Lavoisier’s Correspondence)

 

The Catalogue of the Lavoisier Collection of Scientific Instruments: A Work in Progress

Paolo Brenni (Italian National Research Council)

 

“Taking Nature as a Guide”: Lavoisier in the Laboratory and in the Field, 1763–1768

Louise Palmer (Fairfield University)

 

A Look from Below: Karel Van Bochaute and the New Chemistry in the Southern Low Countries

Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Science History Institute)

 

Lavoisier’s Reception in Scotland

Robert G. W. Anderson (Science History Institute)

 

Priestley in America—the French Connection

Mary Ellen Bowden (Science History Institute)

 

Lavoisier’s Chemisry in Philadelphia: A Postscript

Robert G. W. Anderson (Science History Institute)

 

Summing Up and Roundtable Discussion

Robert Fox (Oxford University, emeritus)